Cargo Noir - Board Game
 
 
From the creators of the phenomonal Ticket to Ride board games.
 
Set in the world of clandestine goods smuggling, Cargo Noir is a game of intrigue and cunning. Each player must traffic their goods around the world dispatching their cargo ships with great anonymity into the safest and riches harbours in the
World.
 
The players judgement comes into play when they must decide which contraband is the hottest, and also laidened with gold decide when the time is right to reveal their bounty and revel in the spoils of victory.
 
Cargo Noir is a wonderful and rare trading game that equally provides challenges and excitement for two players and more, as you glide through the darkened harbours of Aberdeen slipping past a British patrol boat.
 
Includes: Macao and 8 Port boards, 131 Cargo Tokens, 54 Victory cards, 24 Smuggler's Edge, and 30 Victory Spoils, 5 "Family" sheets, 25 Cargo Ships, 60 Gold coins, 1 Cargo Noir bag, 1 Turn and 1 First Player marker, and 1 Rules booklet
 
Age group: 8+ years
Suits 2 - 5 players
Average playing time: 30 - 90 minutes
 
Here is your chance to traffic your way to the top
A game by the sublime Co-Author of 'Shadows Over Camelot.'
 
Box size: 295 x 295 x 75 mm
 
By Days of Wonder
 
 
In Serge Laget's Cargo Noir – his fourth standalone box game from Days of Wonder – players represent "families" that traffic in smuggled goods in a 1950s noir setting. Each turn, you'll set sail to various ports where cargo is known to get "lost" for the right price – Hong Kong, Bombay, Rotterdam, New York and more – and you'll make an offer for the goods on display. If another family then offers more in that port, you'll need to up your bid or take your money and slink away to look for goods elsewhere. Stand alone in a port, though, and you'll be able to discretely move the goods from the dock to your personal warehouse. Says Laget in a press release accompanying the game announcement, "Everything in Cargo Noir grew from a core auction mechanism that is simple and trivial to explain – you can only bid up, and the last bidder standing gets the goods."
 
Once you collect goods, you can trade them in to add more ships to your fleet – allowing you to scout for wares in more locations – purchase Victory Spoils, or take other actions. The more goods you collect, the more valuable they can be. The player with the most Spoils at game end wins.